See: when ISS astronauts were celebrating Christmas in space and Santa was visiting them

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Although this year’s Christmas celebrations were shut down around the world due to the pandemic, the festive joy, however, managed to spread into outer space. The International Space Station (ISS) astronauts not only celebrated Christmas aboard the space station, but also sent a message about human resilience on Earth.

The seven crew members of the ISS Expedition 64 took the day off into orbit to relax, but five of them aired some special videos for everyone on Earth. Talking about how the pandemic changed lives, they greeted the human spirit and talked about how they celebrate Christmas, showing gifts they received through a special delivery.

Although the crew took the day off, they stressed that NASA’s Johnson Space Center mission control team in Houston works 24 hours a day and will work every day during the holiday season and will make a special cry.

The ISS international crew includes NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover Jr. and Shannon Walker; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi; and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov.

According to tradition, they decorated the ISS with holiday decorations made with items found around the station and flaunted challenging the mission control team to create holiday decorations made only from found materials. in the building. Wearing a festive red and green Christmas blazer, Scoville responded, “The challenge is up!” before adding “You may have to cut this coat and turn it into something new later.”

The holiday spirits were evident in the video messages when the pilot of the Space Crew Dragon, Victor Glover, showed off the socks (custom-printed with photos of his family member) and the engineer of the Space Agency. ‘Aerospace Exploration of Japan, Soichi Noguchi, shared a Christmas present to the mackerel team made by a group of schoolgirls. “It’s a tiny, tiny mackerel can, but a giant leap for Japanese high school girls,” Noguchi joked showing off the gift.

And since the Christmas festival is incomplete without Santa Claus, for the first time, ISS astronauts received a special visit from a strange spaceship, powered by a reindeer and carrying a cheerful old elf. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have unveiled a new video of Santa’s survival at the festival station.

“For the first time, the FAA issued Santa a special commercial space license for a manned mission to the International Space Station using its StarSleigh-1 space capsule powered by the Rudolph rocket,” the FAA had said in a statement. “Let’s be realistic, 2020 was a difficult year and we could all use some special joys that only Santa can offer,” he added.

Earlier it took them a while to send a message of “resilience” at home during an especially difficult holiday season, explaining once again the importance of the name they gave to the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that launched four of the astronauts at the station. space in November.

Away from home and family on Earth, for the past 20 years astronauts have spent vacations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and each year have immortalized the events by adapting newer ways to enjoy the holidays at outdoor space.

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